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SUMMARY:Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus a
 ureus in schools. - Citizen Scientists from Cottenham Village College and 
 St Bedes Inter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan\, Department of Veterina
 ry Medicine\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical models that predict the spread of infectious dise
 ases are an essential part of public health decisions for the introduction
  of new vaccines. These predictions use self-reported social contacts as a
  proxy for how likely people are to transmit infections through casual int
 eractions. However\, the link between who people report having contact wit
 h and how they actually pick up infections has never been tested. We are a
 ddressing this crucial public health question by recruiting school childre
 n as citizen scientists to collect social contact and genomic data to esti
 mate the transmission of Staphylococcus aureus within a school environment
 . In this talk\, citizen scientists from Cottenham Village College and St 
 Bedes Inter-Church School present their preliminary results including a fi
 rst estimate of the carriage and anti-microbial resistance rates in Britis
 h school age children of this common\, but clinically important\, bacteria
 .
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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